ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,405, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Secure certificate chain transition" was invented by Karim Salem (Seattle), Avanindra Paruchuri (Sammamish, Wash.), Alexander Geoffrey Howells (Sammamish, Wash.), George Adrian Drumea (Kirkland, Wash.) and Zhifeng Wang (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide proxies or other servers in a computing network with independent certificate chains which facilitate mitigation of certificate problems. Independence criteria are enforced against two or more installed certificate chains on a given server, identifying an...